360 is an Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

 computer and video games

Computer and video games

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 magazine published by Imagine Publishing

Imagine Publishing

Imagine Publishing is a UK-based magazine publisher, which publishes a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines. It was founded on 14 May 2005, and launched with a core set of six gaming and creative computing titles. In November 2005 it acquired the only retro games...

 in the UK

United Kingdom

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. Originally published four-weekly, the magazine switched to a three-weekly schedule in 2009.

Overview

The magazine is split into four main sections: Agenda, Foreplay, Reviews and Live Style. The double page spread on pages eight and nine, called Thread, is composed of emails, letters and posts or sections of posts from the 360 magazine forum. On page nine, there is a pie chart

Pie chart

A pie chart is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector , is proportional to the quantity it represents. When angles are measured with 1 turn as unit then a number of percent is identified with the same number of centiturns...

 showing votes cast on the 360 magazine forum on a different subject every week, which is chosen by the magazine staff.

There are also two features following the Reviews section that can be as long as ten pages. As a standard, the magazine is 130 pages long.
The magazine targets the mature gamer demographic, similar to that of Edge

Edge (magazine)

Edge is a multi-format computer and video game magazine published by Future Publishing in the United Kingdom. It is known for its industry contacts, editorial stance, distinctive anonymous third-person writing style, yearly awards and longevity....

magazine.

The magazine also reviews games, giving an overall score marked out of 5. They also have started to review game related hardware on occasion as well as aspects of Xbox Live

Xbox Live

Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...

. These typically include games available for purchase on the Xbox Live Marketplace

Xbox Live Marketplace

The Xbox Live Marketplace is a virtual market designed for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live members to download purchased or promotional content...

and various retail games with Live functionality.